This weekend was truly awful in the weather department — it was gloomy, rainy, cold and windy, so apart from some usual grocery shopping, I opted for staying home :-)

I also had a plan to master the cheesecake icing, that gave me so much trouble earlier the week, and since I got my food coloring gels, I decided to try them too!
As you can see, the mission was a success, and I ended up with 24 delicious strawberry-colored cupcakes with strawberry jam filling, and creamy, super-sweet, delicious cream cheese icing :-)

Check out some of the sneak peek images I took, because the recipe is coming soon:

My work colleague likes these kind of cakes, so I decided to make one for his birthday this week — it is an apple tart with beautiful pastry decorations: the grid, braided edge and some flower-shaped crisps.